Congress President Rahul Gandhi defended his ‘PM is hiding behind a lady’ comment and stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making an attempt to impose his sexism on Gandhi.

Talking at a media tackle in Dubai on Saturday, Gandhi reiterated, “PM would not have the heart to face the Parliament and ran away from the Lok Sabha (debate).”

Requested in regards to the ‘sexist’ jibe, Gandhi, in an aggressive tone, stated, “PM let his buddy steal Rs 30,000 crore and in the home of individuals, Lok Sabha, the place PM ought to have defended himself, he selected to ship one other particular person. That particular person occurred to be a lady. I’d have made a really comparable remark if it will have been a person. I’d have stated that he select to ship a person.”

He then went on to say, “Don’t impose your sexism on me. I’m very clear that PM ought to have delivered that (speech) defence. PM did not have the heart and ran away from the Parliament. The Raksha Mantri additionally could not reply and our questions (on Rafale) nonetheless stay unanswered. The difficulty right here is corruption and nobody has answered.”

Whereas addressing media in Dubai, Gandhi stated, “An individual who has sacked the CBI chief twice in a row and is terrified to let the CBI chief sit for 15 minutes, has no enterprise speaking about anything. He’s answerable to our nation why he gave Rs 30,000 crore to his buddy. Why did he sack CBI chief at 1:30 am within the evening?”

Requested about talks with Pakistan, the principal opposition occasion chief replied, “I am all for a peaceable relationship with Pakistan. However I’ll completely not tolerate acts of violence being carried out in opposition to harmless folks by Pakistan. You may’t kill harmless Indians after which anticipate us to speak properly properly to you.”

Gandhi was on a two-day tour of UAE whereby he addressed the Indian diaspora at a jam-packed Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium on Friday night.

He started his second day of the tour by interacting with college students at an institute in Dubai whereby he as soon as once more attacked the Modi regime on the tolerance situation.

Whereas answering a query on about whether or not to have a ‘Tolerance Ministry’, Gandhi replied, “Tolerance is embedded in our tradition. However we see a number of intolerance right this moment which stems from the present authorities. We do not like an India that’s divided.”

He added, “We do not like an India the place persons are overwhelmed up and killed for what they are saying and eat. We do not like an India the place journalists are shot and that is what we’re preventing. And that’s the actual problem within the subsequent election and a lot of persons are not proud of what’s going on.”